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(No Model.)

0. G. MORTIMER. I MAGHINE FOR ORNAMENTING PAPER.

Patented Jan. 29, 1889..

WITNESSES,

flttarney N. PETERS. Fhum-Lnha ra NHED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

CHARLES G. MORTIMER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE XV. THOMPSON, OF SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR ORNAMENT'ING PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,091, dated January 29, 1889.

Application filed March 23, 1888. $erial No. 268,229. .(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES G. MORTIMER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in. the county of New York and State 5 of New York, havcinvented certainnew and useful. Improvements in hlachines for Ornamenting Paper, of which the following is a specification, reference being had. therein to the accompanying drawings. My invention has relation'to GtH'l'tLlll'llOW and useful. improvements in machines for ornamenting paper, and it has particular reference to that class of machines covered by Patent No. 368,415, issued to me on the 16th I day of August, 1887, wherein the designs are impressed upon the paper by an impressionroller having a raised yielding surface, the liquid coloring-matter being applied to this roller by an oversctting strip of felt or other 20 suitable flexible material, which receives the coloring-liquid in regulated quantities from an elevated tank or reservoir and distributes it over the in'ipression-surface of the roller.

This invention is designed to so improve and adapt the color-feeding devices of the machine that any variety of colors may be imparted to the paper at the same moment and by the employment of but one impression-roller, as will be more fully hereinafter o specified.

Referring to the acconipanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure '1. represents a perspective view of the improved devices for ii'ceding the colors to the impression-roller, the impression-roller being shown also; Fig. 2, a vertical sectional view of the same; Fig. 3, a detail view of the impression-roller, showing one of the adjacent color-separating plates or divisions; and 40 at, a detail view of portions of the impressionroller and inclined felt-supporting shelf, show ing three of the detachable color-separating plates and the means for adjusting them on the said shelf, the inking-felts being removed.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates a suitable frame-work for supporting different parts of the apparatus in their proper relative position.

B designates a tank or reservoir mounted 0 upon the frame A, and divided off in this instance into four compartments, each one of which is intended to carry a different-colored liquid. Arranged in front of and below this reservoir are a series of tubes, O, (preferably one above the other,) supported upon the frame of the machine. Each one of these tubes communicates with one of the colorcompartments of the reservoir by means of a rubber or other tube, D, the supply of liquid to the tubes being regulated by cocks E, which communicate with the interior of the compartments. At intervals along these tubes small stop-cocks F are screwed into them, these stop-cocks communicating with the interior of the tubes. Directly below the lower tube C is placed a forwardly-inclined metallic shelf, G, which is supported upon a suitable wooden shelf beneath it, and extends across the machine in line with the said tubes (1. Immediately below and parallel with the lower front edge of this shelf G is the impression-roller ll, which is provided with raised yielding ornament-ing-rings a, secured to ;the roller at regular distances apart, as shown and described in my former patent hcreinbefore mentioned. Placed on the said inclined metallic shelf, and extending down OYGT a portion of the surface of the impression-roller, are the inking-felts Lwhich spread the color over the surface in proper quanti- 8o ties, so as not to blur the same when it is applied to the paper. The color is supplied to these felts by means of small rubber tubes F, attached to the stop-cocks F in the tubes 0, the tubes F reaching down and resting on the inking-felts, as shown.

Mounted on. the inclined shelf G are the color-separating plates J, which extend down between the ornamenting-rings of the impression-roller, the lower edges of these plates being rounded or curved, so as to go partially around the roller and come close up to the surface of the same between the ornament ing-rings. These plates J serve to effectually separate the different colors, and thereby pre- 5 vent them mingling with each other and blending and blurring. One of these plates is placed between the adjacent edges of the felts supplying diiferent colors, each piece of felt being by this arrangement constituted a separate and distinct inking-pad supplying its own color to the impressioii-roller at the same time, but altogether independently of the restof the pads.

In order that the designs may be greatly and readily varied, I make the eolor-separatiug plates adjustable upon the shelf (1, this being accomplished, preferably, as follows: The plates are provided with pins 1) I), which set in apertures or recesses formed in the face of the shelf G, there being, preferably, two rows of apertures across the face of theplate, each vertical pair of apertures being preferably in a vertical line with each space between the oinamenting-rings of the impression-roller. By thus making the plates detachable and adjustable it is evident that with but one roll and one set of apparatus an infinite variety of designs may be imparted to the paper at the same time and with the same machine. by making the plates readily adjustable upon the shelf it is also evident that the operator may change the design without removing the shelf from the machine. The designs may be varied, also, by changing the flexible depending ink-supp1ying tubes F from one felt to another, as is evident. These tubes 1 may also, as is obvious, be changed from one stop-cock to another, as the exigencies of the case may require or the fancy of the operator dictate.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lotte rs Patent, is-- 1. In a machine for oruamenting paper, the combination of the reservoirs, the distributin g-t-ubes U, communicating with the said reservoirs, the stopcoclts in these tubes, the depending tubes attached to these stop cooks, the inking-felts and shelf for supporting the same, the color-separatiug plates supported upon the said shelf, and the lllll)l'GFHlUll-l'fillGl, sul'rstz'tutially as described.

2. The combination of the reservoirs, means for sin'rplying the colors to the inkingfelts, the shelf G, for supporting the inking-felts, the inking-felts overlapping the impressionroller and applying the colors thereto, the impressiou-roller having raised tn'namentingrings on its surface, and the color-separating plates supported upon the said shelf and extending down between the ornamenting-rings upon the impression -roller, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the distributingtubcs the depending tubes F, communicating therewith and supplying color to the inking-felts, the inking-felts overlapping the impression roller and applying the color thereto, the supportingshelf G, the impression-roller provided with raised elastic ornamenting-rings, and the color-separatin g plates supported upon the shelf G and extending down in close proximity to the surface of the impression-roller and between the rings thereon, substantially as described.

c. The combination of a shelf, (t, the impression roller provided with raised orname'ntingsurfaces, the inking felts overlapping the impressitm-roller, means for supplying the colors to said felts, and the color-separating plates mounted upon the said shell G between the inking-felts and extending down to a point in close proximity to the sur face of the impressii n-roller, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the impressiomroller having raised elastic ornamenting-surfaces, the inclined shelf located above the same, the independent inkii'ig-felts overlapping the said roller, means for supplying the colors to said felts, and the removable and adjustable colorseparating plates inserted between the said inking-felts, whereby the different colors are prevented from blending, substantially as described.

13. The combination of the im )ression-roller and the inking-felts, the dist ributing-tubes arranged above the said inking-felts, and the dependi n g color-s11 p plying tu bes attached to and communicating with the said distril uting-tubes C, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CI'IARL 1S (4. MOR'lIMER.

\Vitnesses:

(l. G. VAN GILDER, H. K. Gix'vrrrrv. 

